It's super sad that a whole lot of techie tweeps, social media gurus and thoroughbred twitterholics find it dreadfully difficult digging up, or rather digging out old tweets of just about anybody on the twitterverse. Consequently, this (seemingly) paltry problem makes misinformation fly faster than the truth. Not to worry though, I'm here to put an end to the hitch.
To make sure you comprehend correctly why this is a hitch and how it makes misinformation fly faster than the truth, let me take you back to the first presidential debate—that went down on September 26—between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
As these guys were both going for gold in the passive aggressive Olympics, Clinton hit Trump on climate change saying, “Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese; I think it's real…” Of course Trump gave us the usual blah that he did not. The problem is, while he said he did not, he did.
There's a tweet from 2012—which (fun fact) I believe was the most retweeted thing that night—that says:
So, really his only defense there is ‘I didn't say it, I tweeted it—tweets don't count.’ To which I would say, ‘Anthony Weiner would disagree.’
But also, interestingly enough, Donald Trump's tweet turned into its own weird monster. If you didn't happen to see it, it seemed that hundreds of thousands of people were tweeting that Donald Trump's team was deleting his old tweets. A certain Juan Vidal posted a screenshot saying:
And tons of big names ran with it.
Sophia Bush,
Patton Oswalt,
Even MSNBC host, Chris Hayes, spread this misinformation, writing:
Turns out it was, Chris!
Although he wasn't the only journalist, senior writer for Newsweek, contributing editor for Vanity Fair, Kurt Eichenwald, saying:
Nah, but I think some other people might now.
It's just super sad (as I said before) and absolutely embarrassing. It's a perfect example of misinformation spreading faster than the truth. Would've been incredibly avoidable all you have to do is go to Twitter's Advanced Search…
…you type the name of the person whose tweets you want to look through…
…and type a word and/or phrase…
BOOM! You got it figured out.
So, ultimately, did he tweet this? Yes. Does it seem like he's denying it? Unless he's doing wordplay, yes. Did he delete the tweet? No.
And there you have it. You're most welcome.
To make sure you comprehend correctly why this is a hitch and how it makes misinformation fly faster than the truth, let me take you back to the first presidential debate—that went down on September 26—between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
As these guys were both going for gold in the passive aggressive Olympics, Clinton hit Trump on climate change saying, “Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese; I think it's real…” Of course Trump gave us the usual blah that he did not. The problem is, while he said he did not, he did.
There's a tweet from 2012—which (fun fact) I believe was the most retweeted thing that night—that says:
So, really his only defense there is ‘I didn't say it, I tweeted it—tweets don't count.’ To which I would say, ‘Anthony Weiner would disagree.’
But also, interestingly enough, Donald Trump's tweet turned into its own weird monster. If you didn't happen to see it, it seemed that hundreds of thousands of people were tweeting that Donald Trump's team was deleting his old tweets. A certain Juan Vidal posted a screenshot saying:
And tons of big names ran with it.
Sophia Bush,
Patton Oswalt,
Even MSNBC host, Chris Hayes, spread this misinformation, writing:
Turns out it was, Chris!
Although he wasn't the only journalist, senior writer for Newsweek, contributing editor for Vanity Fair, Kurt Eichenwald, saying:
Nah, but I think some other people might now.
It's just super sad (as I said before) and absolutely embarrassing. It's a perfect example of misinformation spreading faster than the truth. Would've been incredibly avoidable all you have to do is go to Twitter's Advanced Search…
…you type the name of the person whose tweets you want to look through…
…and type a word and/or phrase…
BOOM! You got it figured out.
So, ultimately, did he tweet this? Yes. Does it seem like he's denying it? Unless he's doing wordplay, yes. Did he delete the tweet? No.
And there you have it. You're most welcome.
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